4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> commit 088e861edffb84879cf0c0d1b02eda078c3a0ffe upstream. As recently Smatch suggested, a few places in ALSA control core codes may expand the array directly from the user-space value with speculation: sound/core/control.c:1003 snd_ctl_elem_lock() warn: potential spectre issue 'kctl->vd' sound/core/control.c:1031 snd_ctl_elem_unlock() warn: potential spectre issue 'kctl->vd' sound/core/control.c:844 snd_ctl_elem_info() warn: potential spectre issue 'kctl->vd' sound/core/control.c:891 snd_ctl_elem_read() warn: potential spectre issue 'kctl->vd' sound/core/control.c:939 snd_ctl_elem_write() warn: potential spectre issue 'kctl->vd' Although all these seem doing only the first load without further reference, we may want to stay in a safer side, so hardening with array_index_nospec() would still make sense. In this patch, we put array_index_nospec() to the common snd_ctl_get_ioff*() helpers instead of each caller. These helpers are also referred from some drivers, too, and basically all usages are to calculate the array index from the user-space value, hence it's better to cover there. BugLink: https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=152411496503418&w=2 Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/sound/control.h | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/include/sound/control.h +++ b/include/sound/control.h @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ * */ +#include <linux/nospec.h> #include <sound/asound.h> #define snd_kcontrol_chip(kcontrol) ((kcontrol)->private_data) @@ -147,12 +148,14 @@ int snd_ctl_get_preferred_subdevice(stru static inline unsigned int snd_ctl_get_ioffnum(struct snd_kcontrol *kctl, struct snd_ctl_elem_id *id) { - return id->numid - kctl->id.numid; + unsigned int ioff = id->numid - kctl->id.numid; + return array_index_nospec(ioff, kctl->count); } static inline unsigned int snd_ctl_get_ioffidx(struct snd_kcontrol *kctl, struct snd_ctl_elem_id *id) { - return id->index - kctl->id.index; + unsigned int ioff = id->index - kctl->id.index; + return array_index_nospec(ioff, kctl->count); } static inline unsigned int snd_ctl_get_ioff(struct snd_kcontrol *kctl, struct snd_ctl_elem_id *id)
